Science & Technology
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Cargill, Eddyville Facility - 2019 P2 Awardee
pollution prevention
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Chemical Safety Alert: Lightning Hazard to Facilities Handling Flammable Substances
Raises awareness about lightning strikes, which cause more death/injury and damage than all other environmental elements combined, so industry can take proper precautions to protect equipment and storage or process vessels containing flammable materials.
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Phases of ERA - Tools
Eco-Box is a toolbox for exposure assessors. Its purpose is to provide a compendium of exposure assessment and risk characterization tools that will present comprehensive step-by-step guidance and links to relevant exposure assessment data bases
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Chemical Safety Alert: Shaft Blow-Out Hazard of Check and Butterfly Valves
Certain types of check and butterfly valves can undergo shaft-disk separation and fail catastrophically, even when operated within their design limits of pressure and temperature, causing toxic/flammable gas releases, fires, and vapor cloud explosions.
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Green-Duwamish as a Research Landscape
Green-Duwamish as a Research Landscape brainstorming meeting notes from Thursday, June 22, 2017.
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EPA Metadata Style Guide for Geospatial and Non Geospatial Data
EPA Metadata Style Guide for Geospatial and Non-Geospatial Data web page with chart and links to various Style Guides
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Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Secondary Standards - Litigation Associated with Current Review
Federal Register notices used to review and develop a new Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) secondary standards.
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Lead (Pb) Standards - Federal Register Notices from Current Review
Federal Register notices used to develop the current lead national ambient air quality standard.
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Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Secondary Air Quality Standards - Integrated Science Assessments from Current Review
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Secondary Air Quality Standards
- Integrated Science Assessments from Current Review
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Advancement of Salinity and Flow Monitoring in the San Francisco Bay Delta
This report describes the utility and approximate cost of expanding the salinity water quality monitoring network along the axis of the San Francisco Estuary from Suisun Bay to Rio Vista on the Sacramento River.
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EPA's Diving Safety Program
Policies, standard operating procedures, and standard methods pertaining to EPA's Diving Safety Program.
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Mercury in Water by Manual Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption (CVAA): EPA Method 245.1
Summarizes holding times, and preservation for mercury in water by manual cold vapor atomic absorption. Also provides calibration procedures.
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One Health Assessment: Fish Returning to the Penobscot River
After nearly two hundred years, striped bass, American shad, rainbow smelt, river herring and other fish species have finally returned to Maine’s Penobscot River.
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Thankful for Science
What EPA researchers are thankful for this year
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Are Greenspaces Good for Your Heart?
Innovative EPA research is illuminating the links our environment and our health.
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Building A Resilient Shoreline: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy
EPA and partners worked to make a community more resilient after the effects of Hurricane Sandy.
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Can Creatures of the Deep Help Track Forever Chemicals in Our Oceans?
Some species of whales have baleen, which are keratin plates that grow down in vertical rows from a whale’s upper jaw instead of teeth, to chomp on their prey. EPA researchers are studying if whale baleen can help track PFAS in our oceans.
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EPA Researchers Study Aerosol Transport and Mitigation Measures to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission
EPA researchers are looking at how aerosols spread indoors and investigating technologies that could reduce the amount of virus transmitted.
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From Wildfire Smoke to PFAS: Innovative EPA Scientists Address Longstanding Research Gaps
Through the Pathfinder Innovation Projects program, EPA researchers pursue their own novel research ideas that may improve public health and the environment. Learn about PFAS and wildfire projects.
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From Exposure to Impact: Developing Adverse Outcome Pathways to Support Chemical Risk Assessment
EPA helped create the AOPWiki to support the crowdsourcing of adverse outcome pathway information and share data with the many researchers worldwide studying responses of organisms to stressors.